business culture

The intake of applicants for the specialty "Entrepreneurship" will be announced by Belgorod State University in September 2003. BelSU Rector Leonid Dyatchenko announced this yesterday at a meeting with journalists. He also spoke about the formation of a business incubator in the region - a joint project of the university and the council for the support and development of entrepreneurship under the governor of the Belgorod region. Leonid Dyatchenko, being the rector of Belgorod State University (BelSU), at the same time heads the council for the support and development of entrepreneurship under the governor of the Belgorod region. Now Mr. Dyatchenko will head the third structure - the business incubator and from this year will open the “Entrepreneurship” department at the Faculty of Economics.
According to Leonid Dyatchenko, “the time has come to form a “business culture”, including legal literacy, business ethics, and a number of other knowledge and skills necessary for entrepreneurial activity.” According to him, this, as well as accounting and economic theories, will be taught to future entrepreneurs at the university. Chairman of the Belgorod City Council for Entrepreneurship Support Igor Gladkov also agreed that such training is necessary. According to him, "often people with higher education and many interesting, viable ideas are unable to adapt to the local business environment without outside help."
The business incubator will be created on the basis of the regional government institution “Center for Support and Development of Entrepreneurship”, which has been operating in the Belgorod region for almost two years. As Leonid Dyatchenko assured, entrepreneurs are already going to the center, knowing that here they will be assisted in obtaining subsidies and compensation and will be provided with a number of consulting services. In the near future, a public reception will open here, where representatives of federal regulatory authorities will be on duty according to a predetermined schedule. Leonid Dyatchenko believes that this will partly solve the problem of inconsistency between the actions of the federal government and the needs of the regional market.
Messrs. Dyatchenko and Gladkov reminded journalists that for regional and local authorities, entrepreneurship is “an important factor in economic growth and employment.” As part of the implementation of the program to support small businesses in the Belgorod region, last year the volume of investments in small and medium-sized businesses amounted to 75 million rubles.
ANDREY KALUGIN, Belgorod

Kommersant (Voronezh) No. 24 dated 02/12/2003

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